SA Bureau of Standards
National department / entity · 5 published awards, 2022Q2 to 2025Q2
Based on tenders published to the National Treasury eTenders portal. Municipalities and SOEs are not obliged to publish here: absence of data is not absence of procurement. Coverage for this buyer: 40% of its published awards carry a usable value; geography inferred from the name.
What it buys (5 categories)
Awards per quarter
Method mix
- RFP: 3 (60%)
- Open tender: 1 (20%)
- RFQ: 1 (20%)
Median advertised window: 21 days (national median 19).
Supplier concentration
5 distinct winning firms. The largest takes 20% of awards; concentration index (HHI) 0.20.
Largest winners by award count: EXPERIAN SOUTH AFRICA (1), AK TRENDS (1), SEMILSON GROUP (1).
Names restate the published award record; nothing analytic is attached to any name, and concentration is a market-structure observation, not an accusation: small buyers and specialist categories concentrate naturally. Right of reply →
Buyers with similar baskets
Nearest procurement mixes by revealed specialisation (cosine similarity), regardless of sphere or size. Descriptive, not a comparison of performance.
- Limpopo - Office of the Premier
- Limpopo - Co-operative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs
- Social Housing Regulatory Authority
- Municipal Demarcation Board
- Lepelle Northern Water
Categories at least two of these peers award that SA Bureau of Standards hasn't published awards in: Services: Professional (5 peers), Services: Functional (Including Cleaning and Security Services) (3 peers), Supplies: General (2 peers). A gap can be a choice as easily as an omission.